FILE - In this July 25, 2004, file photo, US Postal Service cycling team leader and 2004 Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, right, and team director Johan Bruyneel, toast with a glass of champagne as they ride towards Paris in the last stage . The federal government says it wants Lance Armstrong's medical records from his 1996 cancer treatments because they could prove just how far he was willing to go to conceal performance-enhancing drug use from the public and his sponsors. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)
FILE - In this July 25, 2004, file photo, US Postal Service cycling team leader and 2004 Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, right, and team director Johan Bruyneel, toast with a glass of champagne as they ride towards Paris in the last stage . The federal government says it wants Lance Armstrong's medical records from his 1996 cancer treatments because they could prove just how far he was willing to go to conceal performance-enhancing drug use from the public and his sponsors. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File) Credit: PETER DEJONG

AUSTIN, Texas – Lance Armstrong’s $100 million legal fight with the federal government has a start date.

U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper on Thursday set a Nov. 6 start date for the trial in Washington. Armstrong’s legal team had asked to postpone until 2018 because of a potential scheduling conflict.

The government wants Armstrong to pay back the $32 million the U.S. Postal Service paid his team for sponsorship, plus triple damages.

Armstrong’s former teammate, Floyd Landis, initially filed the whistle-blower case in 2010, accusing him of violating the sponsorship contract by taking performance-enhancing drugs. The government joined the case in 2013 after Armstrong admitted cheating and was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles.

Landis, who was stripped of the 2006 Tour de France title for cheating, could collect up to 25 percent of damages awarded.